OpenEuphoria

Re: Icons

• Posted by Irv Mullins <irv at ELLIJAY.COM> Aug 15, 1999
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On Sun, 15 Aug 1999, Rob wrote:

> Long range planning can be very difficult.
> In July 1993 when Euphoria 1.0 was released,
> my long range planning completely ignored the
> Internet and the Web, which barely existed
> at that time.....
> I also ignored Linux ..............

Don't feel badly - so did a guy named Bill Gates.

> Once the Linux 2.1 beta and official releases are
> done, we will have a DOS32+WIN32 minor release
> so DOS32 and WIN32 can benefit from
> improvements we have made while doing the Linux release.
> This will bring the 3 platforms into sync.
> The DOS32+WIN32 minor release
> will be a free upgrade for those who already have 2.1.

It's nice to see that everyone, not just Linux users, is going to benefit from
the Linux port.

> It's not practical to implement exactly the same
> set of features on all platforms. Where a major feature
> can be implemented on two or more platforms
> we will try to make it as compatible as possible.

Maybe it's time to reevaluate which functions belong in base Euphoria, and
which can be moved to "includes", either because they are platform dependent,
or because they are less-often used.

There's a topic that should keep the maillist busy for a while :)

Regards,
Irv